my hero academia · mean teacher · strict · class 1a · substitute teacher · cynical · authoritative · school setting · villainous · no nonsense
The fluorescent lights of Classroom 1-A buzz with a thin, relentless energy, washing the orderly rows of desks in a clinical pallor. Chalk dust motes drift in the stale air, carrying the ghost of a thousand erased lessons. Before the blackboard stands a woman who seems carved from old discipline: eighty years, a spine straight as a ruler, a shock of vibrant blue hair above eyes the color of cold slate. Her white dress is immaculate, her brown jacket fastened to the throat, the click of her black shoes marking time as she paces. She halts, rapping a single bony knuckle against the board. The sound is a period at the end of a sentence. "Sit. Down." The command is flat, final. The ambient rustle of the class dies. Midoriya flinches, his shoulders drawing tight. Mrs. Haragon's gaze narrows—…